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Fellows of DIA

The Fellows of DIA represent our longest standing, most highly committed members. Fellowship is an honorary recognition, bestowed on less than 1% of DIA's members, who have demonstrated active support of the advancement of global healthcare through DIA's neutral forum.

Martin Harvey Allchurch

Martin Harvey Allchurch serves as Principal International Affairs Officer for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), EU. He first joined the EMA legal team after serving as a European affairs consultant in Brussels. He subsequently headed the Office of the Executive Director, served as Head of Communication, and then moved to the Agency's International Affairs team. Mr. Harvey Allchurch has served on the DIA Advisory Council for Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and as program advisor for the DIA EuroMeeting and Global Annual Meeting. He earned Law degrees from the University of Dundee (UK) and Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium).

Minnie Baylor-Henry

Minnie Baylor-Henry, JD, is President of B-Henry and Associates, and previously served as Worldwide Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, Johnson & Johnson. Minnie has served as a Consultant in the Life Sciences Regulatory Practice at Deloitte & Touche LLP based on her extensive expertise as Johnson & Johnson Vice President for Global Regulatory Affairs, OTC Products; and as Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs. Minnie previously served as the Director of the FDA Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications, and as the FDA’s National Health Fraud Coordinator. A pharmacist and an attorney, Minnie received her Pharmacy Degree from Howard University and her JD from Catholic University.

Gaby L. Danan

Gaby Danan, MD, PhD, was the EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance for Sanofi until his retirement in 2010. He has served on the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences and International Council on Harmonisation Expert Working Groups, as the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations Clinical Safety E2B topic leader and co-chaired the EudraVigilance Expert Working Group from its inception until 2009. Dr. Danan co-published the Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method for drug-induced liver injury, has authored papers on pharmacovigilance definitions and methodologies, chaired the DIA 2010 Annual Meeting, serves on the DIA Safety Training Committee, and instructs several DIA training courses.

Richard O. Day

Professor Richard Day, AM (MBBS, FRACP, MD), is internationally recognized for his research, leadership, and advocacy in support of quality use of medicines. He has been deeply involved in Australia’s National Medicines Policy, culminating in his Chairmanship of the Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicines Committee for the Federal Government (1999-2008), and is an active contributor to national resources such as the Australian Medicines Handbook and Therapeutic Guidelines. Professor Day has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers and been cited more than 21,000 times. He was the first non-US President of DIA, and his many awards include Member of the Order of Australia AM (2000) and the AMA Distinguished Service Award (2009).

Marie Dray

Marie A. Dray is President, International Regulatory Affairs Group, specializing in US and EU biomedical product registration strategies and executive communications. She previously directed an office of Regulatory Liaison & Policy for Merck; and led high technology trade groups in their interactions with colleagues at the FDA, EMEA and other international trade groups for PhRMA. Marie served two terms, including serving as Chair, on DIA’s Board of Directors; she also received the DIA Founders Award and was one of the founding members of the DIA Fellows program. She has also received the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation for her efforts in introducing computer-assisted New Drug Applications into the product application review process.

Nancy Dreyer

Nancy Dreyer, MPH, PhD, is Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President at IQVIA, focusing on generating real world evidence for regulators, clinicians, patients and payers through pragmatic trials and non-interventional approaches. She is a Fellow of DIA and the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, a member of the PCORI Clinical Trials Methods Advisory Panel, and a Standing Consultant to the National Football League Health & Safety Executive Committee. She holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina and has twice been named to PharmaVOICE magazine's annual list of 100 most influential and inspiring individuals in life sciences.

Ron D. Fitzmartin

Ron Fitzmartin is Senior Project Manager, Office of the Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration. In this role Ron provides policy and strategy consultation and support on a wide range of topics focused on electronic regulatory submissions and standardized data. Some of Ron’s activities include: chair of the PDUFA VI information technology committee, Regulatory Chair of the ICH M11 Expert Working Group on clinical protocol standards, and chair of the IDMP Working Group under the International Pharmaceutical Regulators Programme. Ron received a PhD in statistics from the University of Maryland and MBA from University of New Haven.

E. Stewart Geary

E. Stewart Geary, MD, is Chief Medical Officer and a Senior Vice President at Eisai Co., Ltd. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the Editorial Advisory Boards for Applied Clinical Trials and Pharmaceutical Medicine. A member of the CIOMS Working Group on Drug-Induced Liver Injury, he also served on the CIOMS VII Working Group on the Development Safety Update Report, CIOMS VIII Working Group on Signal Detection, CIOMS Working Group on Standardized MedDRA Queries, and the CIOMS IX Working Group on Medicinal Product Risk Management. Dr. Geary is a DIA Fellow and a Fellow of the Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research. He earned his MD from Stanford Medical School.

Kenneth A. Getz

Kenneth A. Getz, MBA, is the Director of Sponsored Research and an Associate Professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs research programs on drug development management strategy and practice. He is also the Founding Chair of the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation, and Founder of CenterWatch, a leading publisher in the clinical trials industry. Mr. Getz serves on the editorial board of Pharmaceutical Medicine and Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science, and his column for Applied Clinical Trials was nominated for a Neal Award. He earned his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Alberto Grignolo

Alberto Grignolo, PhD is a Corporate Vice President at PAREXEL International, and established the firm’s Japan Consulting Services during a two-year assignment in Tokyo. Dr. Grignolo has served as an adviser on human subject protection in clinical trials to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, on the first Executive Committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, as Chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, and as President of FIDIA Pharmaceutical Corporation. He is a DIA Fellow, Editor of DIA’s digital magazine Global Forum, and serves on the faculty of DIA’s Regulatory Affairs: The IND, NDA, and Post-Marketing training course, which he taught in Japan, China, Korea, Europe, and the US.

Yves Juillet

Yves Juillet, MD, is the Secretary General of the Foundation of the French Academy of Medicine. He is a Member of the Academy of Medicine of France and Past President of the National Academy of Pharmacy. He was Chair of the EFPIA Scientific Technical and Regulatory Policy Committee, and also served as Chairman of the IFPMA Regulatory Policy and Technical Standards Committee. Dr. Juillet represented European industry as a Member of the ICH Steering Committee, co-chaired the ICH Global Cooperation Group, and was a Member of the official Registration Committee, and Transparency and Post-Marketing Committees, of the French Health Ministry. He is a Fellow of DIA and was the first DIA Board President from Europe.

Tatsuo Kurokawa

Tatsuo Kurokawa, PhD, is President of the Japan Self-Medication Industry. He previously served as Professor, International Drug Development and Regulation, Faculty of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences, at Keio University, after retiring as an appointed Councilor, Minister’s Secretariat on Pharmaceutical Affairs, MHLW, in 2008. Dr. Kurokawa was a key contributor to launching the International Council on Harmonisation (ICH) with colleagues from the European Commission and US, and served on the ICH Steering Committee up to ICH-3 (1995), while working to advance science and technology policy, and bilateral and multilateral international collaborations. He earned his Doctorate from Chiba University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Sandra L. Kweder

Sandra L. Kweder, MD, is Deputy Director of the Europe Office in the FDA Office of International Programs. Dr. Kweder previously served for more than a decade as Deputy Director, Office of New Drugs, in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, where she actively led numerous improvements in the drug review process, including modernizing nonprescription drug review and the growth and development of pediatric and maternal health as standard aspects of drug development. Dr. Kweder was commissioned in the US Public Health Service upon entering the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS), retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral. She has held numerous pre- and post-market regulatory positions with FDA.

Murray M. Lumpkin

Murray M. Lumpkin, MD, serves as Deputy Director, Integrated Development, and Lead for Global Regulatory Systems Initiatives, for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of regulatory processes in low- and middle-income countries. He served at the FDA, including ten years as Deputy Commissioner for International Programs, and two years as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Global Issues, before joining The Gates Foundation. Dr. Lumpkin was one of the initial members of FDA’s representation to the International Conference on Harmonization, and served for nine years as FDA’s representative to the WHO’s Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences drug safety working groups.

Sandra A. Milligan

Sandra A. Milligan, MD, JD, is head of Global Regulatory Affairs & Clinical Safety (GRACS) at Merck. GRACS facilitates innovative product development, regulatory approval, and commercialization, assures safe product use, and maintains registrations for more than 200 products across international markets. In 2018, she was appointed to the DIA Science Advisory Council and serves on the International Advisory Committee for the DIA China Annual Meeting. Dr. Milligan served on DIA’s Board of Directors from 2011 to 2017, was DIA President from 2015 to 2016, and was recognized as a DIA Fellow in 2017 for her contributions to the DIA mission. She is a graduate of George Washington University School of Medicine and Georgetown University Law Center.

Noriaki Murao

Noriaki Murao is an independent regulatory consultant who spent four decades working in new drug development in national and global companies such as Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Aventis. While conducting clinical research in Germany, he was invited to the DIA EuroMeeting and to serve on the DIA Steering Committee for Europe. These experiences helped support the growth of DIA Japan upon his return: He served as speaker, chairperson, and on the program committee for numerous DIA Japan meetings, and has contributed as a chairperson and speaker to the DIA EuroMeeting and Global Annual Meeting. In 2015, Mr. Murao was recognized as a Fellow of DIA. He earned his BS and MS degrees in Pharmacy from Fukuoka University and Kyushu University.

Jennifer L. Riggins

Jennifer Riggins, PhD, has extensive experience in medical information, medical communications, and digital channels, and serves as Advisor, Global Medical Channels & eCapabilities, for Eli Lilly and Company, where she previously served as Director, Global Information Disclosure. She is also President of phactMI, a group dedicated to bringing medical information transparency to the healthcare community by increasing the value and availability of comprehensive drug information. Dr. Riggins has served on the DIA Board of Directors and Advisory Council of North America. A dedicated PharmD student preceptor and director of drug information residency and fellowship programs, Dr. Riggins earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Butler University.

Jeffrey W. Sherman

Jeffrey W. Sherman, MD, FACP, is Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President at Horizon Pharma. Dr. Sherman has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience through engagements with IDM Pharma, Takeda Global Research and Development, NeoPharm, Searle/Pharmacia, and Squibb/Bristol-Myers Squibb. He a Past President of DIA, has served as DIA Annual Meeting Chair, received the DIA Outstanding Service Award, serves as DIA liaison to the FDA Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative Steering Committee, and was an inaugural DIA Fellow. He is a member of the Global Genes Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation.

Per Spindler

Per Spindler, DVM, MBA, leads Denmark’s Life Science Cluster Biopeople, the first Life Science cluster in Europe that was awarded the Gold Label of the European Cluster Management Excellence. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Science, and of the European Cluster Excellence Expert Group of the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis. Dr. Spindler has received DIA’s Outstanding Service Award, and has served on the Board for EUPATI Denmark, the DIA Advisory Council of Europe, and the DIA Board of Directors. He has organized hundreds of meetings and training courses, mainly within regulatory science and affairs, and non-clinical safety sciences and toxicology.

Ling Su

Ling Su, PhD, is Professor and Director, Institute of Drug Regulatory Science in Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, and also a Venture Partner with Lilly Asia Ventures. Dr. Su has worked in the Bureau of Drugs of the Ministry of Health in China, and in CDER for the US FDA. His previous research and management positions include Epidemiologist, Medical Director, and Senior Regulatory Strategy Director for Merck; Pharma Development and Medical Director at Roche; Vice President for Clinical Research Asia Pacific at Wyeth; and Senior Vice President and Head of Pharma Development China at Novartis. Dr. Su was also a Life Sciences Strategic Advisor for Sidley Austin, and was appointed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Biotech Advisory Expert Panel.

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